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MALI / LOCATION SCOUTING
STORY: MALI / LOCATION SCOUTING
TRT: 2.14
SOURCE: MINUSMA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /FRENCH/ NATS
DATELINE: 19 MAY 2013, GAO, MALI
1. Wide shot, French military camp
2. Med shot, helicopter hangar
3. Pan right, from attack helicopters on the ground to UN plane taxing
4. Med shot, USG Amira Haq descending from plane
5. Close up, USG Haq greeting Malian officers
6. Wide shot, USG Haq greeting Malian officers
7. Wide shot, tent with French delegation and a army car in foreground
8. Pan left, briefing by French military inside the tent
9. Various shots, street shots of Gao
10. Wide shot, power plant
11. Pan left, from turbine to delegation
14. Wide shot, interior of power plant
15. Wide shot, ruins of WFP former office
16. Med shot, WFP former office
17. Pan right, from WFP sign to delegation
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Amira Haq, Undr Secretary-General for Field Support, United Nations:
"Infrastructure is poor, particularly here in the north. To get trucks with fuel and rations, all that will be challenging. We still need the security for our planes to land; we need to find out if security and safety conditions are right to deploy our personnel. These are some of the immediate issues that we have to confront."
19. Wide shot, room with audience
20. Med shot, Dias with USG, Governor of Gao
21. Various shots, audience
22. SOUNDBITE (French) Bibita Moctar Dicko, Women Association of Gao:
"We were completely looted. They've looted public sector, they've looted private sector as well. Even private houses were looted. They even pulled of the earrings from women's ears."
23. Various shots, street scenes in Gao
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Amira Haq, Undr Secretary-General for Field Support, United Nations:
"I made a point that expectations should be managed. That is a very important message for people to understand that things will not change overnight. That will take small incremental steps in development and restoration of normalcy."
25. Wide shot, huts in Gao
During her two day visit to Mali, the United Nations (UN) head of field support Ameerah Haq yesterday (19 May) visited the regional capital city of Gao, in eastern Mali.
Once a jihadist stronghold, Gao is now under joined control of Malian, French and African Union. The situation however, remains volatile which further aggravates the already difficult living conditions of its residents. Some 15,000 people lived in Gao before the violence started.
Haq visited the local power plant which currently operates at 25 percent of its capacity, giving the consumers barely 3 hours of electricity a day.
She also visited locations predetermined for future deployment of the United Nations personnel to the recently approved UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission (MINUSMA) in Mali.
SOUNDBITE (English) Amira Haq, Undr Secretary-General for Field Support, United Nations:
"Infrastructure is poor, particularly here in the north. To get trucks with fuel and rations, all that will be challenging. We still need the security for our planes to land; we need to find out if security and safety conditions are right to deploy our personnel. These are some of the immediate issues that we have to confront."
During her visit, Haq also met authorities in Gao as well as civil society and women representatives of Gao.
SOUNDBITE (French) Bibita Moctar Dicko, Women Association of Gao:
"We were completely looted. They've looted public sector, they've looted private sector as well. Even private houses were looted. They even pulled of the earrings from women's ears."
The process of rebuilding lives in Gao will not be an easy one, Mme Haq has worn the residents.
SOUNDBITE (English) Amira Haq, Undr Secretary-General for Field Support, United Nations:
"I made it a point that expectations should be managed. That is a very important message for people to understand that things will not change overnight. That will take small incremental steps in development and restoration of normalcy."
Last Friday (17 May) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed Albert Gerard Koenders of the Netherlands as the head of the recently approved United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali.
Koenders will serve as Ban’s Special Representative in the country and will lead the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission (MINUSMA), which is tasked with supporting the political process in the country, in close coordination with the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
The Mission will help the Malian authorities to implement the transitional roadmap towards the full restoration of constitutional order, democratic governance and national unity. This includes the holding of elections in July, confidence-building and facilitation of reconciliation at the national and local levels.
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